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Bevans first sketched out his ideas of various models of contextualization through his time as a missionary in the Philippines and when he was teaching at Catholic Theological Union. [1] [2] These ideas were expanded into Models, first published in 1992, which included five models: translation, anthropological, praxis, synthetic, and ...
According to Bevans, contextualization is a better term than indigenization to describe social location and particular experience because it "broadens the understanding of culture to include social, political, and economic questions," while indigenization merely focuses on the "purely cultural dimension of human experience."
His model of "critical contextualization" [7] describes a process of understanding and evaluating cultural practices in light of biblical teaching. It is one of the most widely cited models in evangelical doctoral dissertations dealing with contextualization.
Contextualism, also known as epistemic contextualism, is a family of views in philosophy which emphasize the context in which an action, utterance, or expression occurs.. Proponents of contextualism argue that, in some important respect, the action, utterance, or expression can only be understood relative to that contex
Contextualization may refer to: Contextualization (Bible translation) , the process of contextualising the biblical message as perceived in the missionary mandate originated by Jesus Contextualization (computer science) , an initialization phase setting or overriding properties having unknown or default values at the time of template creation
Contextual learning is based on a constructivist theory of teaching and learning. [1] [page needed] Learning takes place when teachers are able to present information in such a way that students are able to construct meaning based on their own experiences.
Charles H. Kraft (born 1932 [1] in Connecticut) is an American anthropologist, linguist, evangelical Christian speaker, and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Intercultural Communication in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, where he taught primarily in the school's spiritual-dynamics concentration.
Coconut theology was an attempt by the Tongan Methodist minister Sione 'Amanaki Havea to create a contextual theology that spoke to the specific experience and context of Pacific Island or Oceanic culture.